Crisis? Chelsea’s injury list grows…

By: Jack | November 15th, 2009

Just a few short weeks ago, Chelsea appeared the strongest team — at least squad-wise — in the English top flight. How quickly things can change.

Following this weekend’s international break, the list of those on the treatment table has grown exponentially — and not simply from lining up for their respective countries.

Frank Lampard pulled out of England’s friendly against Brazil in Qatar before it even began. In fact, he was done immediately after de-boarding the flight. Yes, Super Frank could be out anywhere from three weeks to eight (according to reports) with a thigh tear apparently picked up because of poor seating on the airplane. Seriously? Maybe we should blame the FA for this farce.

Then there was England’s Brave John Terry, who also failed to make it safely into England’s squad for the Brazil friendly. A swollen ankle in training prevented his participation. Who knows how serious this is, and how long Chelsea may be without its captain.

And, now, I’m reading that Didier Drogba could be sidelined for up to three weeks with a broken rib? Maybe I’m late on this, but come on. The Sun suggests a scan by Drogba’s home nation, Ivory Coast, revealed the damage; that would appear legit considering the striker was held out of the country’s World Cup qualifier against Guinea on the weekend.

All this on top of the loss of fullbacks Ashley Cole and Jose Bosingwa. Bos will miss three months; Cole’s layoff is unknown, though we know — thankfully — that his injury does not require surgery.

Where does this leave us? Well…

Looking ahead two weeks to a pivotal match against second-place Arsenal, we could potentially be without Drogba, Lampard, Terry as well as Cashley and Bos.

Not good. Not good at all.

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Tags: Ashley Cole, Chelsea Team News, Didier Drogba, Frank Lampard, Friendly, Injury, International, John Terry, Jose Bosingwa, Player News

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• Martin |  November 15th, 2009 at 2:05 pm

  
  
  

  The way things are going, Jack, you and I are going to suiting up for our clubs on the 29th. I hate internationals…

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• Ed |  November 15th, 2009 at 2:38 pm

  
  
  

  Lucky for Liverpool everyone was injured before internationals…wait, that’s not good.

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• A |  November 15th, 2009 at 3:34 pm

  
  
  

  On the plus side, both Zhirkov and Mikel played 90 minutes this weekend…

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• Nate |  November 15th, 2009 at 4:38 pm

  
  
  

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e3AJy8r8S4&feature=player_embedded

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• ish |  November 15th, 2009 at 6:01 pm

  
  
  

  as it stands the team against arsenal would look like this

  ———–cech———
  ivanovic—alex–carvalho–zhirkov
  ————-essien————–
  ———mikel—ballack———
  ————–deco————–
  ——–anelka—–j.cole———–

  or around there, not exactly weak. also RVP is out for 3 months as well.

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• Andrew S |  November 15th, 2009 at 8:59 pm

  
  
  

  Way to be a dick, Nate. I really hope we get a chance to play Barca this season. At this point, you guys are nowhere near as good as you were last year, and even then it took you 180+ minutes to finish Chelsea off, and off of a lucky botched clearance at that.

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• MoMONEY |  November 16th, 2009 at 12:34 am

  
  
  

  Looks like Arsenal will be without RVP as well… Should be interesting still with so much at stake

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• Roman'sRublesRule |  November 16th, 2009 at 4:03 pm

  
  
  

  I dunno if he’ll play a diamond with Mikel anywhere other than in front of the central mid’s because of his natural tendencies to drift inward. I think he’ll play a modified diamond with Anelka alone up top and Joe Cole behind him so that he can pair with Deco in the mid-field engine room and still give that creative pass to Anelka. Something like this?
  —–Cech——–
  Ivanovich-Alex-Carvalho-Zhirkov
  —–Mikel——Essien
  Ballack—Deco—Malouda
  —-J Cole______Anelka

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• Alexinho |  November 17th, 2009 at 6:56 pm

  
  
  

  We at the Arsenal Offside say, “injury problems? HA! You don’t know what injury problems are…”

  Trust me. You’ll be fine.

  But I have to say this has heartened me a bit…

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